VATICAN CITY — The 70th anniversary of the death on April 10 of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the controversial French Jesuit whose works the Vatican formally censured in 1962, has given further ...

After Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivered his sermon at today’s wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, many observers around the world wondered, as one headline put it, “Who was the Jesuit priest ...

Are American nuns paying for the sins of a Jesuit priest who died in the 1950s? It might seem that way, given the ongoing showdown between doctrinal hard-liners in the Vatican and leaders representing ...

Visionary Teilhard de Chardin was a man of contradictions upon contradictions. He was a Jesuit priest who accepted Darwinian evolution and played a role in the discovery of Peking man. He was a ...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the widely influential Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher whose writings were cited with a “warning” by the Vatican in 1962, may finally have that blot removed from his ...

Much in Point Omega makes sense, for all the ponderous maundering of its central character, Richard Elster. That evolution gropes toward the “noosphere,” or mind-world, described by the French-born ...